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From: tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: man page bug
Message-ID: <104745@convex.convex.com>
Date: 8 Aug 90 19:08:48 GMT
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Reply-To: tchrist@convex.Com (Tom Christiansen)
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The perl man page has the following line under the flock example:

	open(MBOX, ">>/usr/spool/mail/$USER")
	    || die "Can't open mailbox: $!";

This should really be:

	open(MBOX, ">>/usr/spool/mail/$ENV{'USER'}")
	    || die "Can't open mailbox: $!";

--tom
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    Tom Christiansen                       {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist 
    Convex Computer Corporation                            tchrist@convex.COM
		 "EMACS belongs in <sys/errno.h>: Editor too big!"